side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air (Norman Dello Joio, host, with Kurt Adler and Mary Watkins Cushing) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Robert Lawrence, host, with Robert Bagar, Ruby Mercer, Francis Robinson and Walter Ducloux) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 2. Prelude ; Act 1 through "Zieh 'hin Wahnsinniger" -- side 3. Act 1 concluded ; Act 2 through "Gepriesen March" -- side 4. Act 2 concluded -- side 5. Introduction ; Act 3 through "O du mein holder Abendstern" -- side 6. Act 3 concluded ; Closing remarks (Cross).
Call number
*LT-10 6082
Note
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:45:53 (synopses and features) ; 3:02:54 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
Indexed in (note)
Opera news
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 29, 1955.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 416 (F)
Language (note)
Sung in German.
Author
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
Title
Tannhäuser [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music and libretto by Richard Wagner.
Playing time
004553 030254
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 29, 1955]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Jan. 29, 1955]
Performer
Jerome Hines (Landgraf) ; Ramon Vinay (Tannhäuser) ; George London (Wolfram) ; Giulio Gari (Walther) ; Clifford Harvuot (Biterolf) ; Paul Franke (Heinrich) ; Norman Scott (Reinmar) ; Astrid Varnay (Elisabeth) ; Blanche Thebom (Venus) ; Heidi Krall (A young shepherd) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Rudolf Kempe, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1990, from aluminum-based acetates (8 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.
Indexed in:
Opera news, v. 19, no. 12 (Jan. 24, 1955).
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Jan. 29, 1955.
Reproduction
Service copy (3 sound cassettes : analog, mono., Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 416 (F)
Language
Sung in German.
Added author
Hines, Jerome, 1921- Performer
Vinay, Ramon. Performer
London, George, 1920-1985. Performer
Gari, Giulio. Performer
Harvuot, Clifford, 1912-1990. Performer
Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer
Scott, Norman, 1921-1968. Performer
Varnay, Astrid. Performer
Thebom, Blanche. Performer
Krall, Heidi. Performer
Kempe, Rudolf, 1910-1976. Conductor
Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator
Dello Joio, Norman, 1913-2008. Commentator
Adler, Kurt Herbert. Commentator
Cushing, Mary Watkins. Commentator
Lawrence, Robert, 1912- Commentator
Mercer, Ruby. Commentator
Robinson, Francis, 1910- Commentator
Bagar, Robert C. Commentator
Ducloux, Walter. Commentator
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Added title
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Research call number
*LT-10 6082 Master tape. Request cassette service copy in *LTCM 416 (F)
*LTCM 416 (F) Cassette service copy; production notes on file. Master tape in *LT-10 6082.